'Views included dead bodies and vomiting guests at Spanish hotel' (From Warrington Guardian)

'Views included dead bodies and vomiting guests at Spanish hotel'

DEAD bodies and vomiting holidaymakers are memories that one couple can't shake off eight years after a horrendous break in Spain.

Maureen and Henry Delooze experienced their nightmare holiday at the Beach Club Hotel in Torremolinos, which is now at the centre of one of the biggest lawsuits ever against tour companies.

The Warrington Guardian reported last week how more than 900 claimants were suing holiday firms after developing stomach illnesses such as salmonella poisoning at the hotel during breaks dating from 2000 to 2002.

But the Deloozes, of Kingsley Drive, in Appleton, say there were problems at the hotel as far back as September 1996, when they stayed at the resort.

Maureen, aged 61, said: "It was a terrible holiday. I have never seen so many buckets and mops outside all the time because people were constantly being sick, and we felt so sorry for the kids there."

The couple booked the all-inclusive two-week holiday through Lunn Poly, now Thomson, and paid around £1,000.

On arrival, they discovered that each mealtime, they had to pick what food they wanted and cook it in a microwave.

Maureen said: "A couple of days later we saw a queue of people waiting for the doctor, and we were told that somebody had been taken to hospital.

"Henry started being sick in the middle of the night, and it got to 3am and I thought he would need fluid but staff at the hotel wouldn't give me a bottle of water so I had to go out and get some from a shop.

"There were a lot of people being taken to hospital, and if it had been somebody frail or old they could have died from something like that."

To add to the couple's woes, the hotel was next to a sanatorium, where they could see dead bodies being pulled out of the mortuary on a trolley.

Henry, aged 63, said: "We went away and spent a lot of money - and all I got out of it was a sore stomach."

The couple said that on their return the holiday firm told them it had not had any other complaints.

The current lawsuit is being carried out against companies including Thomson, Thomas Cook Tour Operations (formerly JMC Holidays), the Really Great Holiday Company trading as Travel City Direct, Cosmosair plc and Sunstar Leisure. They have all denied liability.

The Deloozes intend to contact law firm Irwin Mitchell, which is acting on behalf of the claimants, to put their story forward.

'Views included

dead bodies and vomiting guests at Spanish hotel'